ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,617,395, issued on May 5, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi, Japan).
"Driving assistance apparatus" was invented by Masakazu Nishijima (Ebina, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driving assistance apparatus includes a crosswalk detection unit configured to detect a crosswalk in front of a host vehicle, an area setting unit configured to set, on an adjacent lane, an obstacle detection area for detecting an obstacle on the adjacent lane on a near side of the crosswalk, an obstacle detection unit configured to detect a presence or absence of the obstacle in the obstacle detection area, and a driving assistance unit configured to ...